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Business leadership for a climate neutral economy

The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group responds to UK decision to commit to net zero emissions by 2050

12 June 2019

12 June 2019 – The UK Government has announced legislation to commit to net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050.

Business leaders urge EU heads of state to signal new economic direction towards net zero by 2050

25 April 2019

April 30 2019 – On the eve of the Future of Europe Summit, CEOs from more than 50 businesses, investors and business networks, including Unilever, IKEA and DSM, are calling on the EU to endorse a long-term decarbonisation strategy to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

Unique coalition calls upon EU to ramp up climate action

18 March 2019

18 March 2019 – A unique gathering of businesses, investor groups, local and regional authorities, trade unions and civil society groups, standing together as the Coalition for Higher Ambition, published an open letter calling on the EU to ramp up climate action.

Letter from CEOs to UK Prime Minister calls for a net zero emissions goal by 2050

23 November 2018

26 November 2018 – Members of The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) have written to Prime Minister Theresa May, calling on the UK Government to fulfil the promises made in the Paris Climate Agreement and aim for net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest.

Letter from the Corporate Leaders Group to the Environment Council on the EU’s climate ambitions

4 October 2018

4 October 2018 – The Corporate Leaders Group has published a letter to Environment Ministers outlining why the EU’s leadership is essential in achieving net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. With this long-term view in place, the EU will inevitably need to upwardly review its interim targets for 2030 to make sure they capture the progress to date and are consistent with these goals.

Letter from the Corporate Leaders Group to the Environment Council on the EU’s climate ambitions

4 October 2018

4 October 2018 – The Corporate Leaders Group has published a letter to Environment Ministers outlining why the EU’s leadership is essential in achieving net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. With this long-term view in place, the EU will inevitably need to upwardly review its interim targets for 2030 to make sure they capture the progress to date and are consistent with these goals.

Aiming for Zero: Long-term certainty for economic prosperity

5 September 2018

12 September 2018 – The Paris Agreement is a historic landmark for both international diplomacy and action on climate change. The Agreement sets out an ambition, and a framework, to limit climate change and global temperature rise to well below 2°C, with efforts to limit this to 1.5 °C. To be Paris compliant, and to have any hope of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 °C, it is clear from the latest science that global emissions must now fall to net-zero as early as possible in the second half of this century. For developed economies such as the EU’s, whose leadership is essential in this, the achievement of net zero emissions must therefore be by 2050 at the latest.

Letters and statements

3 August 2017

Leading businesses and investors urge the UK to show leadership towards a zero carbon economy

20 July 2017

A letter from leading companies and investors, sent to the Prime Minister yesterday, urges the UK government to raise ambition to tackle climate change and show leadership towards a stronger, more prosperous and sustainable economy.

Blog: Business to EU governments: Make Europe’s Industries Great Again

21 June 2017

23 June 2017 – To survive and thrive, Europe needs to regain its proactive approach to policymaking to ensure that its industries are given the right signals to compete by being both low carbon and high value, writes Jill Duggan, Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group.